By: Michael Tuosto In their Wall Street Journal article entitled Charges Stir Church’s Abuse Scandal, Dinah Brin and Peter Loftus report that 21 priests accused of sexually abusing minors were placed on leave by the Philadelphia Catholic Archdiocese. The article also reminds readers that the issue of clergy taking…
By: Michael Tuosto Often the American 2nd Amendment gun debate revolves around tragedies like the one in Tuscon, Ariz. This is understandable since it was a tragedy “close to home." In fact, at our home, America. For me, the renewed efforts to further restrict gun rights, due to this…
By Jim Hoover Five faces tell the story – or stories, as it might be -- of Fox News Network. It tells a narrative of angst and spectacle that bends minds, heaves hearts, presses attitudes, and makes pupils wide. Bill O’Reilly, a Fox news icon, is depicted with a…
By: Max P. Domer Since its spiritual founding in 1916, Planned Parenthood has had its share of controversy. When Margret Sanger, an early proponent of birth control and the original president of what would become the organization we have today, founded the first American birth control clinic in Brooklyn,…
by Jim Hoover With the ruthless and relentless monolithic corporate assault on anything getting in the way of stellar profits, it is easy to imagine any number of dirty tricks to achieve this end. The cause of greed has many allies in government and business. For example, Governor Scott…
By: Geoffrey Yonil The syndicated German television program Panorama recently came out with the story of how a group of civilians, some of which were reporters, were shot down by an American Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007 for being suspected of carrying weapons—which couldn't be seen entirely because…
By: Ashley Wrigley For those of you who somehow missed the DADT debate, DADT is the seventeen-year-old “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prevents gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military. The repeal was passed in 2010 voted 65-31 but will not take effect until President Obama,…
By: Tiffany Ungter How can Japan, one of the most technologically advanced nations of our time, fall to nature? you may or may not be asking. In reading the articles about the tragic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan this past Friday I've noticed a slew of different responses…
By: Geoffrey Yonil Cairo did it, why can't we? I wonder if that was the thought process behind this new fad to make Facebook groups and events to boycott big oil this March? Obviously it's not that simple; it never is. Sarah Thompson, one of the fad starters, claimed…
By: Thomas Ponsive Wired Magazine recently came out with an article called '1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who's to Blame?' The article's title right from the get go makes you wonder, what's the correlation? The company that makes iPhones over in Shenzhen, China, Foxconn, has made…